When the dusts settles on the WPT Venice it will be remembered as a landmark tournament for a many reasons. From being the first WPT event in Italy, to being the first event sponsored by bwin, the WPT Venice certainly broke a lot of new ground. But possibly the most exciting thing to come out of the week was the unveiling of one of the biggest developments we’ve seen for a long time in the world of live poker; bwin’s ˜TourLive’ Tournament Information System.
Spearheaded by bwin’s Creative Director Kim Lund the ‘TourLive’ system really pushed the envelope in the tracking and broadcasting of live tournament information. The system allowed for hand histories, chip counts, photos, recent elimination, individual chip count trends and many other statistics to be communicated to the railers, media and players live via dedicated monitors found through out the poker room, casino and gardens, making sure that no-one missed a moment of the action.
Basically, for the first time ever everyone at the tournament could follow all the action across all the tables as easily as someone at home reading live updates on the internet.
The TourLive system tracking everything from big hands to player achievements and even individual player chip count trends
Kim and his team of technical gurus worked around the clock fine tuning their fantastic looking ˜TourLive’ system all week here at the WPT Venice and it really paid off all with all players, media and railers extremely impressed with the innovation. Even more impressive was the fact that this was just the Beta testing of the system and with all that was learned from its implementation at this tournament the system will be even bigger and better next time! Great work guys, keep on pushing the envelope!
